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Date:      Sun, 30 Sep 2001 14:17:23 -0400
From:      Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>
To:        Umesh Vaishampayan <umeshv@apple.com>
Cc:        Aaron <click46@webpimps.net>, freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Darwin and FreeBSD on PPC
Message-ID:  <20010930141722.A91046@electricjellyfish.net>
In-Reply-To: <DDA30F70-B467-11D5-B102-000A27898EC8@apple.com>; from umeshv@apple.com on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:23:47PM -0700
References:  <20010928173241.A27363@electricjellyfish.net> <DDA30F70-B467-11D5-B102-000A27898EC8@apple.com>

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On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:23:47PM -0700, Umesh Vaishampayan wrote:
> 
> On Friday, September 28, 2001, at 02:32  PM, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> 
> > (for example their /dev/random is a port of the
> > FreeBSD /dev/random)
> 
> Not really. There was a patch that did a port. But the code that is 
> checked is based on the Security Server we had in 10.0.

ahh, i stand corrected.  i was under the impression that louis's port
of /dev/random had been adopted, but it's been a while since i've
followed the darwin mailing lists, so i guess i'm out of date.

> > but their kernel is derived from NextStep,
> 
> Well...
> 
> At NeXT we had Mach 2.x+4.3BSD+DriverKit.
> In Darwin Mach 2.X is replaced by Mach 3.x
> 4.3BSD ia replaced by 4.4BSD Lites2 + FreeBSD 3.X networking
> DriverKit is replaced by IOKit.

in any case, substantial portions of darwin are different enough from
FreeBSD to make using code from Darwin for the FreeBSD ppc port
difficult.

-- 
garrett rooney                     Unix was not designed to stop you from 
rooneg@electricjellyfish.net       doing stupid things, because that would  
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